Nina Foch's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Name of the Game Mrs. Freder… Route 66 (1960) Samantha Bull Madeline Shadow Chasers Dr. Juliana… Pursuit Mrs. Claire…

Main Movie Roles 2003 - How to Deal 2002 - Pumpkin 1998 - Hush 1996 - It's My Party 1993 - Sliver 1989 - Skin Deep 1986 - Nomads 1975 - Mahogany 1960 - Spartacus 1960 - Cash McCall 1956 - The Ten Commandments 1955 - Illegal 1954 - Executive Suite 1952 - Scaramouche 1951 - An American in Paris 1949 - Johnny Allegro 1949 - The Undercover Man 1948 - The Dark Past 1947 - Johnny O'Clock 1947 - The Guilt of Janet Ames 1945 - My Name is Julia Ross 1945 - Escape in the Fog 1944 - Cry of the Werewolf

BIOGRAPHY:

A leading lady of the 1940s, the tall and blonde Foch usually played cool, aloof and often foreign, women of sophistication. As film roles became harder to find, Foch proved to versatile in many areas. She was a panelist on several TV quiz shows, worked as George Stevens (I)' assistant director for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and directed plays. Since the 1960s, she has been an acting teacher for USC and the American Film Institute.


TRIVIA:

• In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by 'Rosetta Calavetta' (qv), but was also dubbed by 'Lidia Simoneschi' (qv) (in _My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)_ (qv)); 'Rina Morelli' (qv) (in _The Ten Commandments (1956)_ (qv)) and 'Giovanna Scotto' (qv).
• Her father, Dirk Fock, was born in Batavia, Java (where her grandfather was governor general of the Dutch East Indies) on June 18, 1886. He died in Locarno, Switzerland on May 24, 1973. He studied, composed and conducted orchestral music in Europe, but made his American Debut as conductor with a specially assembled orchestra at Carnegie Hall in N.Y. on April 12, 1920; also conducted orchestral groups elsewhere in the U.S., and in Vienna.
• Played the first person to be murdered in the long-running series 'Columbo', in the pilot episode 'Prescription: Murder'.
• Ex-daughter-in-law of 'Lawrence Lipton' (qv).
• Last name "Foch" rhymes with "Gosh".
• Fell ill while teaching "Directing the Actor," a popular course at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, where she taught for 40 years. She died a day later at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from long-term myelodysplasia, a blood disorder.
• Daughter of Dirk Fock, conductor of the Amsterdams Concertgebouworkest, and actress and singer 'Consuelo Flowerton' (qv).
• Her parents divorced when she was a toddler.